With more and more mobile devices coming into the company, and with us wanting to support BYOD, we needed an MDM solution!

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Once we decided we needed an MDM solution, it became time to start trying out the different solutions.

First up was MaaS360, and it was a great product. Really killer features, and at the time no one was doing anything nearly as good. The problem is we had over 50 devices and even at the low price of $5/device that we got them down to there was just no way I could get that kind of reoccurring budget. Time to move on.

Meraki - loved that it was free, but it simply didn't have features we needed, like email setup, selective wipe, etc.

AirWatch - looked promising but required a sales person to give you a demo key and we could never get one to call us!! If you don't want to sell me your product than I'm certainly not interested in buying it.

Absolute - Good product, in house and low cost with no reoccurring fees. This is the product we ultimately ended up going with. Rollout went well and we now had the ability to selectively wipe BYOD's so user's didn't have to loose their whole phone when they left the company--assuming we couldn't get to the device when they left.

Interesting, a little over a year later we revisited Meraki and discovered that it now supported all of the features that we needed! Did some testing and it really worked well. And with it still being free we made the decision to move from Absolute to Meraki.